The schools may well organize intensive short courses in practical training, as well as other courses designed to advance qualified workers to positions of directive work in the factories.
As usual, the especially important function will be the training of men already in the trades for more skilled tasks or for directive work.
The directive completely frustrated, the robot whined once and then was silent.
The unshakable directivearound which it was built had taken over: there was a machine which should be fixed.
But leaving this last question aside, this much is certain with regard to the markings, that they are dependent, not on an internal, but on an external directive power.
On November 4, employing a piece of heavy-glass and a new horseshoe magnet, Faraday noticed that the magnet appeared to have a directive action upon the glass.
On December 21, in the same year, Faraday showed that the earth's magnetism was capable of exerting a directive action on a wire conveying a current.
Aristotle calls the virtue directiveof games eutrapelia, which may also be called reasonable relaxation, urbanity, or pleasantness.
Wisdom, which is enumerated by Isaias in the first place, is also given the highest rank among the Gifts by theologians, on account of its greater elevation, more universal scope, and the directive power it exercises.
An instruction of the Holy Office of 1866 required that the guilty party in a case of solicitation should confess, but the instruction was directive rather than preceptive.
The mean of the practical virtue of prudence, as regulating the moral virtues, is right reason, considered as directive of the desires and conduct so as to avoid excess and defect.
Rubrics, directive and preceptive, in administration of the Sacraments, 2669 c.
They are unequal in their excellence as habits, faith being superior to hope, as the intellectual habits are superior to the moral; for faith is regulative and directive of hope, and has an object more abstract and universal.
Some Instances of Formative and Directive Stimuli* Again it is to Herbst that we owe not only a very thorough logical analysis of what he calls “formative and directive stimuli”[40] but also some important discoveries on this subject.
Herbst himself has discussed theoretically several cases of organogenesis in which the action of directive stimuli is very probable.
As the nineteenth century went on, it became more and more plain to the intelligent directive people that the common man had now to be something better than a drudge.
What directive forces are these stirring millions likely to encounter?
Nowhere was the available directive ability capable of keeping a grip upon affairs in the face of the rupture of habitual bonds and the replacement of the subtle disciplines of peace by the clumsy brutalities of military 'order.
In spite of the truth and profundity of the psychological side of Gautama's teaching, Buddhism stagnated and corrupted for the lack of that directive idea.
In this relation, gravity has nodirective or psychic element.
Stimulus and response taken together constitute the directive force in obedience to which the world unfolds itself in the evolutionary process.
The directive force must have something to work on.
We have now got hold of a valid distinction between mechanical and directive agencies.
Yet he is unquestionably capable of directive action upon matter.
Behind the mechanism of the pianola, behind the mechanism of the brain, there stands this living directiveforce of which we can give no scientific account whatever—we can only say that it is there.
It is true, however, that life is ultimately responsible for the material with which it works as well as the directive agency that breathes through it.
By means of it the directive forces on the needles on different courses can be compared.
Then the adjustment is made by placing the correctors so that the directive force is as nearly as may be the same on all courses.
Let us look now at some of the facts of human heredity and consider some of the possibilities in the way of directive agencies.
It is surprising, however, that neither the Greeks nor Romans, with all their philosophy, would seem to have discovered its directive property.
Ten per cent of the total working force in the printing industry is employed in supervisory and directive positions.
The technical content of the work which might conceivably be given in evening classes, except in the case of the few directive and supervisory positions, is so small that continuation instruction offers but meager hopes of success.
The directive merely pointed out to the controllers that it was within the scope of existing regulations to scramble on radar targets that were plotted as traveling too fast or too slow to be conventional airplanes.
They agreed to issue a directive to all of their units explaining the UFO situation and telling specifically what to do in case one was detected.
The outcome of the meeting was a directive to take further steps to obtain positive identification of the UFO's.
The Air Defense Command UFO directive did not mention shooting at a UFO.
The Air Defense Command UFO directive would also clarify the scrambling of fighters to intercept a UFO.
Bergson adopts is somewhat as follows: Life is directive and creative; it utilizes the chemical and physical forces of the body for the purposes of its manifestation.
Life, therefore, cannot be an intelligent or a directive energy.
Their increase and expansion are impeded by lack of directive ability and of capital, and the risk to the workers' savings.
In so far as this exceptional directive ability is due to unusual efforts and sacrifices, the surplus returns which it produces may be claimed with justice by the employer.
Directive ability can be developed in the course of time, just as it was in the co-operative stores.
Capital can be obtained fast enough perhaps to keep pace with the supply ofdirective ability and the spirit of co-operation.
Moreover, Mr. Schiller writes quite ignoring the fact that the "directive intelligence" does not direct the preservation of the better specimens.
And here one might reasonably ask, why, if there is a directive mind at work, are there variations at all?
Observation proved that such was the case and the directive in question was none other than an imitation in miniature, or rather a movement anticipatory of the expected head-movement of the horse.
As a matter of fact, a slight directive movement of the head or hand was just as effective as the spoken command).
As soon as he increased the number of cloths upon the floor, it was no longer possible for him to give the horse such accurate directive signs, and the number of errors consequently increased.
The case is different with the perception of the directive signs for tapping, for nodding and shaking the head, etc.
The impression of an inward active principle is to natural things, what the promulgation of law is to men: because law, by being promulgated, imprints on man a directive principle of human actions, as stated above.
But as to the directive force of law, the sovereign is subject to the law by his own will, according to the statement (Extra, De Constit.
Hence, in the judgment of God, the sovereign is not exempt from the law, as to its directive force; but he should fulfil it to his own free-will and not of constraint.
Further, not only do the executive gifts belong to the active life, but also some of the directive gifts, e.
Such organs and the directive eyes appear mainly at this anterior end.
And at this stage the light-perceiving directive eye has developed into a form-perceiving, eidoscopic organ.
I find myself then, when my eyes are opened to the realities of the world in which I live, confronted with the facts of directive control and of the moral ideal.
This directive action was known to the Chinese more than three thousand years ago.
The directive power of the magnet has been and still is of incalculable value to all civilized nations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "directive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
